Police have launched an appeal to find a 12-year-old boy who was last seen on Friday (August 17).

Dre Wilson, who has links to Saffordshire, was last seen at 9.05pm running along Harby Lane in Harby, in the Vale of Belvoir, Leicestershire.

Officers from Leicestershire Police’s Missing Persons Operations Team are urgently trying to find the youngster who they say is 'distinctive in his appearance'.

Dre is described Afro Caribbean. The top of his hair is bleached blond and the sides are very short with two lines shaved into each side of his head.

When he was last seen he was wearing a green khaki coat, black skinny jeans with rips on both knees, a white shirt with a collar on (like a school shirt) and light brown slip on shoes with brown toggles on them

He is four feet 6 inches tall and of slim build. His left ear is pierced with a large diamond shaped stone and he has a small nose ring too.

He was carrying a blue rucksack with several shades of blue on it. He is known occasionally to wear large gold rimmed glasses.

Sergeant Chris Day from the Missing from Home Team said: “Dre has only just turned twelve so is obviously very young and we are naturally very worried about him because of his age.